Tottenham and some confusion over Alen Halilovic

We woke-up this morning to reports in The Express that Tottenham had revived their interest in Dinamo Zagreb’s Alen Halilovic, who was strongly linked with a move to White Hart Lane in the Summer.

A couple of hours later, Sky Sports claimed that Spurs’ interest in the ‘new Luka Modric’ was over and that no further attempt to bring the Croat to England would be made.

It’s not really surprising.

While we’ve all seen the clips of Halilovic and salivated over his YouTube highlights, at seventeen years-old it’s still too early to know for sure whether he’s kind of player who could transition into English football and could, more importantly, justify what would be a large fee and wages. He’s out-of-contract in the Summer, but because of his age and the development fees which would be attached to any transfer, he wouldn’t be available on a free.

Tottenham have two very young, very promising creative midfielders in Lewis Holtby and Christian Eriksen, and so the need for another is very limited.

Halilovic will have a great career somewhere, but maybe that’s destined to be a in a more technique-based league.

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No confusion. The facts are that Alen Halilovic’s father is a greedy manipulative person looking for the biggest signing on fee he can get from Spurs and who, even if the player did sign for Spurs, would be looking to ‘rake off’ the next signing on fee from Real Madrid, so therefore he may as well go straight to Real Madrid now and cut out any meddling by the greedy turd.